Meat Associate

About the Role

Assists in the daily operations of meat and seafood departments, promoting and executing consistent and compliant operating conditions to increase customer confidence and loyalty. Provides fresh and appealing products, courteous, knowledgeable, and prompt service. Supports an inclusive environment by embracing the backgrounds and experiences of the team.

Responsibilities

• Service (60%)
  • Creates an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated.
  • Prepares and packages meat, seafood, random weight items, lunchmeat, frozen food, and salted meats to production standards.
  • Operates department equipment and tools.
  • Ensures customer requests and special orders are fulfilled.
• Leadership (20%)
  • Promotes trust and respect among associates through collaboration, teamwork, and communication of company, department, and job-specific information.
  • Adheres to all local, state, and federal laws, and company guidelines.
• Financial (10%)
  • Stocks and rotates department products to ensure freshness and date control; restocks and uses supply items efficiently to eliminate waste and maintain low supply costs.
  • Receives and breaks down meat deliveries.
  • Maintains a clean, orderly, and hazard-free work area.
  • Monitors inventory/stocking conditions and reports discrepancies.
  • Reviews and inspects products for quality and freshness, taking appropriate action with substandard items.
  • Ensures products are held at proper temperatures per food safety guidelines and retains temperature logs as required.
• Compliance/Safety (10%)
  • Ensures company standards for safety, food handling, sanitation, and productivity are maintained.
  • Adheres to regulatory compliance requirements for food safety, USDA, Country of Origin Labeling (COOL), and Department of Agriculture (DOA).
  • Executes product recalls and withdrawals promptly, securing and removing items from customer access.
  • Reinforces safety programs by complying with procedures and reporting unsafe conditions to management.
  • Reports customer or employee accidents, safety risks, and illegal activity (e.g., robbery, theft, or fraud).
  • Ensures adherence to wage and hour policies and regulations.
  • Cultivates a culture of safety, ensuring all associates have received necessary safety training.
  • Posts Hazardous Assessments and ensures Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is available and utilized.
  • Ensures equipment is in good repair and assists with remediation of safety hazards (e.g., lock out/tag out of equipment).
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Authorization to work in the United States or the ability to obtain the same.
• Successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background check.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal, motivational, and communication skills.
• Knowledge of cutting, traying, wrapping, and labeling.

Qualifications

• Education: High School diploma or GED preferred.
• Language: English required; Spanish preferred.
• Experience: 0–3 years of relevant or supervisory experience.

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

Physical Demands: While performing the essential functions of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand or walk on various types of flooring, utilize manual dexterity, talk, see, hear, smell, and perform repetitive movements with both hands and/or feet. The employee is frequently required to reach at waist level or overhead, carry, push, or lift loads up to 70 lbs. The employee is occasionally required to sit, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb up to 10 ft. Pulling requirement: 250 lbs.

Working Conditions: The employee may be exposed to indoor, outdoor, cold, freezing, heated, and wet/humid environments. Safety risks include twisting back and/or neck, walking on slippery or cluttered floors, working with hazardous equipment, exposure to sharp objects, loud noise, skin irritants, nuisance dust, fumes, sprays, hazardous cleaning solutions, and other toxins.

Equipment Used: Cleaning supplies, general office equipment, register, pricing gun, scales, scanner, material handling equipment (racks, carts, pallet jacks, shopping carts), baler/compactor, general hardware tools (ladder, pliers, wire cutters), ice machine, shovel, powered cutting equipment (slicers, saws, grinders), various knives, wrapping equipment, automatic meat wrapper, lobster tanks, box cutter.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Goggles, gloves (including cutting, fryer, and oven gloves), back brace.

Schedule

Varied shifts.